Suffrage and Women’s Rights
This page provides resources that can be used to study the 19th-century woman suffrage movement and women’s rights more broadly, bringing a Rochester focus to the topic. These resources were developed in accordance with the New York State Social Studies K-12 Resource Toolkit inquiry, “7th Grade, Women’s Rights,” which addresses New York State Social Studies Framework Key Ideas and Practices 7.7. A link to this inquiry is included.
Local Resource Bank
The following resources are intended to supplement the Featured Sources of the 7th Grade Women’s Rights Inquiry, bringing a local focus to the question, “What Does It Mean to Be Equal?”
Resource 1 Amy Post, Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at the Unitarian Church
Rochester, NY, August 2, 1848,1870.
Excerpts from the report of the second women’s rights convention, held in Rochester two weeks after the first meeting in Seneca Falls. From the collection of the Rochester Public Library Local History Division.
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Resource 2 Edwin and Catherine Rumball, The Working Girls and Women of Rochester, NY
n.d. Excerpts of a report on the condition of working women and girls. From the collection of the Rochester Public Library Local History Division.
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Resource 3 "Female Lawlessness and Female Suffrage," Union and Advertiser
November 14, 1872.
Excerpt from a newspaper article reacting to the illegal voting of 15 women in Rochester, NY. From Susan B. Anthony Scrapbooks 1848-1900, volume 6. Accessed on microfilm at the Rochester Public Library Local History Division.
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Resource 4 Albert R. Stone, Anti-suffragist tent with Mayor Edgerton
1915. From the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY.
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Resource 5 Turn of the century women bicyclists
1890-1915.
From the collection of the Rochester Public Library Local History Division.
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Resource 6 Albert R. Stone, Young women line up at the polling place
ca. 1925-1936.
the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY.
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Resource 7 Albert R. Stone, Placard carrying members of the National Woman's Party visit Susan B. Anthony's grave
ca. 1923.
From the Albert R. Stone Negative Collection, Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY.
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